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It’s that time of year to give gifts to the many, many people who help your child through his or her day, as well as to the other side of the family (you know, the one you don’t want to spend too much money on, because really it’s the ex’s job to buy for them, but it’ll never happen, and you don’t want your kid to feel bad for not bringing presents?…).

But buying gifts for all of those people would be outrageous. So what is a budget-minded, single mom of a special needs kid to do? Get crafty…

As mentioned in a previous post, you can make your own sugar body scrub from fairly common ingredients like sugar, honey, tea, and vanilla.

You can get yourself a metal stamping set (like this one from Harbor Freight), some washers (but probably better to get actual jewelry making metal from the craft store: zinc-coated washers are too hard), and some carabiners from your local big box store (they run about a dollar apiece) to make personalized key chains.

And so we begin… Want directions on how to make the explosion box? There is a fantastic tutorial by Beate from Split Coast Stampers here. Mine is a 2″ box, the measurements for which are in the comments of the … Continue reading →

I have a lot of necklaces. Commonly sold jewelry boxes don’t cut it, and those necklace “trees”? Forget it. The tree would be big enough to take up a corner of my room if it had enough “branches” to hold … Continue reading →